{"id":1762,"date":"2010-04-07T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:32:23","slug":"hidden_in_the_fine_print_of_ob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Hidden In The Fine Print Of Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/Five-things-we-learned-about-Obamacare-after-it-passed-90029262.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>, David Freddoso reported on five things that we learned about Obamacare after it had passed Congress.&nbsp; As Nancy Pelosi famously said, &#8220;<em>We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Freddoso, these are the five things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite what we were told, the bill does not cover children with pre-existing conditions&#8211;that will happen later.&nbsp; Congress and the White House are moving to change that.<\/li>\n<li>States will find their budgets stretched to the limit by the requirements that states must provide medical care for the poor under Medicaid.<\/li>\n<li>Niney percent of Medicaid&#8217;s new expenses (created by insuring everyone) will be paid by the federal taxpayer&#8211;not the states.&nbsp; This will increase the federal budget.<\/li>\n<li>If you are not insured and have not paid the penalty, the IRS will take it out of any tax refund you receive when you file your income tax.&nbsp; (This might explain why the bill includes the hiring of 17,000 new IRS agents.)<\/li>\n<li>Ski resorts are now required to provide healthcare insurance for every employee who works 120 days.&nbsp; The original bill had a 150-day requirement, but the House changed that requirement and increased the fine for noncompliance from $750 to $2,000 per employee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To say that this bill is a nightmare is a total understatement.&nbsp; &#8220;Repeal and replace&#8221; needs to be the rallying cry of anyone who wants to be elected to Congress.&nbsp; If a candidate whimps out on repeal and replace, he needs to be replaced!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the Washington Examiner, David Freddoso reported on five things that we learned about Obamacare after it had passed Congress.&nbsp; As Nancy Pelosi famously said, &#8220;We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}